Development Director Software & Engineering Support

Do you have a comprehensive experience and understanding of how to build software with high quality and security standards? Are you a talented people manager with technology transformation experience? 
Then we are looking forward to hearing from you. 
We are looking for a Development Director ready to share and grow 
Software & Quality Engineering Supports mission is to unlock velocity for the  
BEC's developer community through self-service and modern software and quality engineering tools, platforms, and procedures – resilient, secure and compliant. 

This includes an effective Software Development Life Cycle, modern Software Development tools, Software Quality Assurance and application platforms like Container, Integration (API, Event streaming) and Observability & Monitoring platforms – across public cloud, private cloud and mainframe technologies.  

The domain currently consists of 5 teams with 60 employees in Roskilde, Denmark and Warsaw, Poland.  

“You will as Development Director lead the transformation and implementation effort towards a World Class Engineering Culture at BEC that will lead to the Employer of choice for ‘engineers’ in financial technologies.”, says Anja Steenstrup, Head of Division.  

You and your team collaborate closely and cross-company together with Product Management, Architecture, Procurement, Risk & Security, Legal and not least of course the end-users of the service offerings – the software engineer, test engineers and software architect community at BEC. 
 

Primary task and responsibilities include: 

• Delivery responsibility 

• Ensure BEC one backlog priority execution on scope, budget and schedule. 

• Engage in solution discussions, problem solving and impediment removal. 

• Support product management defining product vision and objectives. 

• Ensure teams haves necessary budget, resources, approvals, and other support. 

• People responsibility 

• Build high performing teams to effectively deliver on the backlog. 

• Develop and drive a culture of cross functional collaboration. 

• Recruitment, hiring and talent management. 

• Performance, professional and personal development of leaders and employees. 

• System portfolio management responsibility 

• Ensure development towards architectural principles, guidelines, and target state. 

• ProactiveProactively identifying high-level operations and maintenance projects and tasks. 

• Ensure system portfolio is resilient, secure, and compliant. 

• Identifying, monitoring, and mitigating any risks within line of work. 

To succeed you will have:   

• Live and lead BEC’s leadership foundation 

• Drive the technology transformation of BEC together with BEC’s team of directors. 

• Communicate with key stakeholders and collect and share feedback. 

• Ensure transparency on decisions, progress, and results. 

• Strong understanding of software development and technology. 

• End-user focused and service minded. 

• Striving for maintaining services and solutions in best-in-class state. 

• Strong communication and leadership skills and able to act as “champion”. 

• End-to-end understanding of the end-user journey. 

• Passion and ability to drive a continuous improvement mindset. 

• Appetite for innovation and creation of cutting-edge solutions. 

• Master educational background as platform engineer, software engineer or similar 

• 10-15 years of IT experience from software companies 

• 5-8 years of IT leadership experience 

• Fluent in English (written and spoken) 

It’s nice-to-have experience: 

• Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) experience 

• DevOps or DevSecOps 

• API, Event streaming 

• Container platform 

• Software testing 

• Observability and monitoring 

• Solution or Application architecture 

• Financial industry experience 

• Mainframe experience 

BE OUR BEST SELF WITH BEC’S BENEFITS! 

We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them. 

• Professional development 

• Healthy, varied lunch and fruit in the canteen ​ 

• Active staff associations: yoga, cycling, go-karting, salsa dancing etc. ​ 

• Flexible working hours 

• Health insurance 

• Referral bonus 

• Flexible working hours 

WHAT DOES THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS LOOK LIKE? 

1. Send us your CV: We want to get to know you Screening call: Let’s chat and see if we’re a match 

2. Meet your future manager and team: See who you’ll be working closely with. 

3. Personality and cognitive test: Let’s learn more about you. 

4. Meet our talent partner and your future manager once more: Get feedback on your test results.  

5. Time to sign the contract: We’re ready to welcome to BEC! 

If you have any questions related to the position, please contact Talent Attraction Partner Anders Rud Skak-Arnstrup at 00 45 23 80 06 44. 

MAKE US AWARE OF YOUR TALENT    

We are an equal opportunities employer. We hire top talent regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, and age. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. See our full list of vacancies at https://www.bec.dk/en/vacancies/